was kann nur perl?

[LanX!]

(... uff ich bins nicht mehr gewöhnt, dass man seine posts nicht updaten kann ...)

Noch ein Fundstück, Interview mit Matz

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Stewart: I gather you had worked with both Perl and Python before creating Ruby. What bits of Perl did you incorporate in Ruby?

Matz: A lot. Ruby's class library is an object-oriented reorganization of Perl functionality--plus some Smalltalk and Lisp stuff. I used too much I guess. I shouldn't have inherited $_, $&, and the other, ugly style variables.

Stewart: How about Python? What aspects of that language did you try to reuse in Ruby?

Matz: Far less than Perl. But I stole a few things, like exception names. Plus I learned a lot from its code.
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man beachte auch die Namensgebung von "Ruby" und "Perl"... (die Sprache heißt mit absicht nicht Mamba oder Chatter... ;-)